The Glossary

Just in case you didn't know, Marc Andreessen is given the
credit for making the World Wide Web popular, first by taking
credit for writing Mosaic, the first graphical based browser for
the World Wide Web, then, along with former SGICEO Jim Barksdale, forming a small company
known as Netscape.

The the movie Alien, the crew of the Nostromo
refer to thier employers as simply “The Company.” No
name is given (although if you look closely in the extended
version of Aliens 2 you'll actually see
the name of the company); it's just this large, monolithic,
mysterious “entity” that controls their actions from
afar with no accountability.

Much like companies today.

So I've come to call any company I work for “The
Company” since the eventual result of all the mega mergers
going on today will be one single entity that may not call itself
“The Company” but will in fact be “The
Company.”

The location of all the computers in the Facility in the Middle
of Nowhere, which is currently doing double duty with another
room. At Condo Conner, I had a separate room for the computers
which I enjoyed (corner office, with window!) but
currently, I don't have one here at the Facility in the Middle of
Nowhere, alas.

The fourth location I lived (and am living) at in Lower Sheol.
It is called “The Facility in the Middle of Nowhere”
because it really is in the middle of nowhere, commercial
zone wise. The closest convience store is about two miles away
(thus not making it very convient), although the local landscaping
is quite nice.

Instead of doing the actual dirty work of maintaining a
database of web pages and doing a search through that, this
instead contacts other search engines on the web, given them the
query and the dubious honor of all the dirty work.

This does not do a search, but instead does a search of
searches, thus the term metasearch.

An afectionate term I use for South Florida, an area of
approximately 1500 square miles of urban sprawl that runs from
North Palm Beach (just north of West Palm Beach, darhlink) south
for some 100 miles south to Florida City and averagages some 15
miles across.

A rather derogatory term for an office cubical, one of the
worst inventions of the 20th century.

In a rather odd twist, most companies feel that giving
individual offices to office workers (especially programmers) is
counter productive, but by the same token, the most
successful software company in history (as of this writing in
early 2004) is Microsoft,
which gives all its programmers their own office. You
would think that other companies would attempt to emulate those
companies more successful then they, but apparently that isn't the
case here.

The promised home land for ASGXland,
located somewhere between the United States and Canada.

It exists in some form in Seattle and Toronto, but not nearly
in the capacity that fellow generation-x.net.cabal members would
like. For instance, there's nearly not enough clear, blue (10
pts) coffee in Seattle or Toronto.